linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 167/212] mm: do not access page->mapping directly on page

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Date:   Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:43:16 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Minchan Kim" <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 167/212] mm: do not access page->mapping directly on
 page_endio

3.16.44-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

commit dd8416c47715cf324c9a16f13273f9fda87acfed upstream.

With rw_page, page_endio is used for completing IO on a page and it
propagates write error to the address space if the IO fails.  The
problem is it accesses page->mapping directly which might be okay for
file-backed pages but it shouldn't for anonymous page.  Otherwise, it
can corrupt one of field from anon_vma under us and system goes panic
randomly.

swap_writepage
  bdev_writepage
    ops->rw_page

I encountered the BUG during developing new zram feature and it was
really hard to figure it out because it made random crash, somtime
mmap_sem lockdep, sometime other places where places never related to
zram/zsmalloc, and not reproducible with some configuration.

When I consider how that bug is subtle and people do fast-swap test with
brd, it's worth to add stable mark, I think.

Fixes: dd6bd0d9c7db ("swap: use bdev_read_page() / bdev_write_page()")
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -795,9 +795,12 @@ void page_endio(struct page *page, int r
 		unlock_page(page);
 	} else { /* rw == WRITE */
 		if (err) {
+			struct address_space *mapping;
+
 			SetPageError(page);
-			if (page->mapping)
-				mapping_set_error(page->mapping, err);
+			mapping = page_mapping(page);
+			if (mapping)
+				mapping_set_error(mapping, err);
 		}
 		end_page_writeback(page);
 	}